HROB 3090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Cognitive Theory, Descriptive Knowledge, Procedural Knowledge

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 3090
• Professor: Rhonda Gordon

Document Summary

Understanding adult learning theory, how people learn, and their moivaion for learning is integral to a training program"s success. Organizaions need to be strategic in their approach. It is the process of acquiring knowledge and skills and a change in individual behaviour as a result of some experience (formal or informal) Gagne"s model discusses 5 categories that learning outcomes can be classiied into: verbal informaion, facts, knowledge, principles, and packages of informaion. Kraiger and colleagues" model drawing from gagne"s model, discusses 3 broad categories of learning outcomes. Stage 1: declaraive knowledge: learning the basic facts and informaion, performance is resource dependant. Stage 2: knowledge complicaion: involves integraing tasks into sequences to simplify and streamline the task. Stage 3: procedural knowledge: learner has mastered the task and performance is automaic and habitual. Explains how people learn during each of the stages as a funcion of the resources required to learn a new task.